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Nice Site... Loaded in less than 2 sec on Firefox, IE, K-Meleon and Opera. What browser is giving you trouble? If the bottleneck was in your MySQL code they would all be slow, so I doubt thats your problem. Really looks like you don't HAVE a problem to me. Very slow? Was a little slower than FF, but not annoyingly slow or anything. I noticed the loading indicator at lower left seems to flash a lot on IE while loading.

This site has lots of info: http://www.searchtools.com/

Sorry for off-topic reply, but I just wanted to say I love your "Snickering Muttley" avatar, DLF. I was a card-carrying member of Dick Dastardly's Vulture Squadron when I was a kid, and that just flashed me back!

Also known as "Spray Paint"

LOL, I was over your way Sunday at the Millville Air Show.... Way Cool B) Hope you can use the Proc Killer.

Yes, set jumpers to slave if it is on IDE cable that already has a drive attached. Master if it is on its own cable. Plug it in and go. Then you can delete useless stuff like old windows and program files and just leave your data and lots of free space.

Easiest thing would be just install old HD in new computer. This solves problem of transferring files and also gives you a second HD to use.

Good point Soulin. Guess a programmers first reaction is to compile some code.

@alanoll, he wanted something completely silent... no feedback. don't see a switch for that in taskkill.

No, sorry. It uses NTDLL.dll. NT/2000/XP only.

I found some sample code on the web to kill processes. I have been working with the process management API's on another project when I found this. I compiled it for you... completely silent. Just call kp.exe <process name to kill> EDIT: removed debug symbols (ref to msvc60d.dll) kp.zip

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/proce...processutil.htm gives a little feedback but no banner popup.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=39162&hl=adobe

I noticed that Adobe7 seems to load much faster than v6. Have you noticed this also? [deXter] has a great slimmed-down version of this as well.

Right click on folder, select properties, advanced tab- encrypt contents to secure data. This does not password protect but only allows logged-in owner to read the files. This only is in xp pro. for home or 9x you need 3rd party file protector.

@Yzowl, I wasn't asking you to critique my favs, but list your own. But since you brought it up, what's wrong with Adobe Reader (this is honest question) It is free is it not?

The "Favorite Software" thread has inspired me to create a similar one for freeware only. Ok, I know that "you get what you pay for" is largely true. That being said it is possible to create a really great machine for most general purposes using only freeware (excluding windows, of course). I know some of the programs listed do not measure up to their commercial brethern, but they are all very functional for all but the most demanding users and uses. This list includes only freeware and "free for home use" ware. No shareware or commercial. How about it... List your ultimate freeware system! Download Manager: Free Download Manager, FlashGot RSS Aggregator: Sage Firefox Plugin Web Server: Apache Web Browser: K-Meleon, Firefox Firewall: ZoneAlarm Pers E-Mail: Thunderbird FTP: SmartFTP Anti-Spyware: Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware SE, HijackThis, CWShredder, SpywareBlaster Anti-Virus: AVG Free, AntiVir Pers Imaging: The GIMP, Paint.NET Image Viewer: Irfan View Photo Album: Picassa2 Screen Capture: Gadwin PrintScreen Word Processing: PsPad, OpenOffice PDF Reader: Adobe Acrobat Database: MySQL, SQLite Web Development IDE: Nvu HTML Editor: AlleyCode CSS Editor: Top Style Lite Defrag: dirms, buzzsaw Backup: MS Backup Undelete: HandyRecovery, PC Inspector Compression: IzArc Drive Imaging: Digital Dolly Disk Cleaner: CrapCleaner File Search: AgentRansack Registry cleaner: CrapCleaner Disk Usage Viewer: Sequoia View Boot-CD: PeBuilder, 911CD Virtual Drive: Daemon Tools CD/DVD Burning: CDBurnerXP, DeepBurner Audio Player: foobar2000, WinAmp Free Version Audio Recorder: Audacity Audio Ripper: Streamripper for winamp Notepad Replacement: Metapad Process Viewer: Sysinternals ProceXP Startup Viewer: Sysinternals Autoruns, startup mechanic Diagnostics: Everest Home Edition Programming: SharpDevelop, Eclipse Net Monitor: Advanced Port Scanner,Ethereal File Manager: xplorer2 Disk Scan: Disk Checker Torrent: Azureus Partition: Ranish

@tarun Yes the iamnotageek site does not totally trust itself either. That is healthy. They do inform you of this fact. Your Converter looks interesting too. Is It available to public, I would like to check it out. Don't see it on lunarsoft (your site looks good, BTW)

Yes, this is very cool and a great service. There is another one here--> http://hjt.iamnotageek.com/

I should have been more clear about installing. Tricky picked up the slack though. Now after install you can configure from admin tools like I described.

For development is fine to run IIS on your main computer. If you go online and get a lot of traffic you will want a seperate box.

What OS are you using now? win2k and XP Pro have IIS. Is easy to install from windows components. To set up basically all you need to do is go into Admin Tools/IIS. From menu create "New virtual folder" and point it at where you have your content. Set properties on the folders to "Execute" for any ASP scripts, php, etc. Thats about it. in browser type -http://127.0.0.1/<yourfolder>/<yourpage> and you will see your page. After that you just need IP and connection for others to see it. domain name registered if you want them to access it with domain name. EDIT: You can also access it with -http://<your computer name>/<yourfolder>/<yourpage>. This will allow any computer on local network to access.

OK, you are willing to shell out for dedicated line. If you plan on uploading lots of large content to your server this will be easier to maintain, rather than uploading through your residential connection. For small files FTP is just as easy as moving files around local disk. Dont know anything about roadrunner.. you will have to price and decide. That still leaves question... do you need help setting up webserver itself, or with creating content.

I'm a little confused with what you are asking. Do you want to know how to set up the webserver itself, or how to create content for it? Even if you make your own server and set up web server on it you will need to register a domain name and have some type of dedicated (expensive) connection for others to access it. Probably cheaper to get a hosting company. I use GlobeDomain. Paid $10 to register domain for year and 4.95 per year for 100MB with 1GB/Month bandwidth. 1GB is low if you want streaming, but there are plenty of other plans that include more that would still be way cheaper than a dedicated connection.

Are you planning on using IIS (MS Web server), or Apache?. Or is that what you are asking?